Egg garnet, 5,0cm

Size of the gemstone eggs made of red-brown garnet (Almandine) approx. 5.0cm x 3.5cm

In many religions and traditions, from ancient Egypt to India, China and Greece, the egg is a symbol of life, becoming and creation. In Buddhism, the breaking of the eggshell symbolizes the breaking through of ignorance.

The dark red garnet (Almandine) is used in gemstone healing to strengthen willpower and to assert one's own ideas against resistance. Hildegard von Bingen was already concerned with the effect of garnet under the then common name carbuncle.